Who
We Are

We are a small independent radical queer activist group.
We started in 1983 as Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention and have
been through a bunch of name changes, but kept our acronym, even though
no one can figure out what it stands for any more. We are so grassroots,
you almost can't find the root. We get no grants (well, okay, we got two
small grants from Resist about ten years ago), have no staff, don't lobby,
don't try to control the gay movement. We work on local San Francisco/Bay
Area issues and national and international issues. We are the proud publishers
of UltraViolet, a free newspaper
which publishes about five times a year.

What We Believe

We are anti-authoritarian, anti-militarist, pro-feminist
and anti-racist, and we demand that queer issues never be put on the back
burner. We will accept nothing less than full civil rights for lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgendered people, but we believe some rights are
not worth fighting for. We do not think queers or straights should be
in the military of a society like the u.s., or probably any government,
and we feel that the queer liberation position is to oppose marriage as
the central institution of patriarchy, not to try to get married ourselves.

Read LAGAI member Kate's radical
rant at the 2005 San Francisco Pride Celebration.

What
We Do

We do poster campaigns and small
direct actions, and participate in larger demonstrations and organizing
coalitions. We are active in protests against war, the death penalty and
police brutality, in the Palestine solidarity movement and the struggle
to save social security and workers' rights.

You can contact us by clicking here
or by writing to us at LAGAI, 3543 18th Street, #26, San Francisco, CA
94110.